Italian 9-Grain Bread {Bread Machine Recipe}

Italian 9-Grain Bread is the perfect bread to make for the holidays, because the labor and cooking are done in a bread maker! Packed with fiber and flavorful herbs, it’s great for making sandwiches packed with leftover turkey and cranberry sauce, croutons for salads, crostinis for quick appetizers, and even savory bread puddings!

Disclosure: This post and giveaway are sponsored by Zojirushi and King Arthur Flour, and they supplied us with materials to make this post possible. As always, my opinions and love for bread, are all my own.

The past month and a half, we’ve been testing out the Home Bakery Virtuoso® Breadmaker on a variety of whole grain based recipes using ingredients and flours from King Arthur Flour. Now, I know what you’re thinking: what is a professional baker that went to culinary school doing by baking bread in a bread maker and not doing all the work herself?! Well, dear readers, after working endless hours at the restaurants, the last thing a baker wants to do is bake fresh bread at midnight! This bread maker allows us to have fresh, healthier loaves in which we have total control of the ingredient with little to no effort on our part and we love that!

During the past week, I’ve made about five different loaves, playing around with the flour varieties King Arthur Flour sent my way, which included bread flour, whole wheat flour, 9-grain flour blend, and sprouted whole wheat flour. One of my favorites to work with was the 9-grain flour, a blend of wheat, high-fiber Sustagrain® barley, rye, oats, amaranth, quinoa, millet, sorghum, and teff. It gave the bread a nutty taste, and definitely made for some heartier loaf.

Cooking with Books conclusion: We found the breads made on the REGULAR course turned out with more volume than on the WHEAT course, and we preferred the former because we could also control the crust color on our breads. The ease of just adding ingredients and closing the lid makes for some of the easiest bread making in the world! The machine rests, kneads, shapes, rises, and bakes the loaf in less than 3 hours, which is perfect for the holidays when you’re incredibly busy making a million other dishes.

I think my first loaf would be the 9 grain recipe here! I think it sounds perfect for sandwiches and French toast! After that, I’ll probably get gutsy. Maybe a cinnamon swirl bread, and closer to Christmas, I’d like to make a julekage.

My first loaf would more than likely be some kind of white bread since I’d probably have all the ingredients already. I’ve really been wanting to try making some kind of Jewish style rye bread though, but I’d have to get special ingredients for it first.

Would make wheat bread. Love homemade bread, just doesn’t seem to be time enough in the day anymore. A bread machine would be awesome. On my someday list. Thanks for the opportunity to try and win one here.

I’d probably try this 9-grain recipe first! I just started baking bread in the last year, and I’m in love, but haven’t gotten to the point of buying a bread machine, and haven’t done anything ‘fancy’ yet either.

I really love using King Arthur flour for baking. This looks great! I’ve never used a bread machine before, but this one looks really nice, and I would make all sorts of breads with it, including honey wheat.

The 9 grain Italian Bread looks delicious. I would love to try that or make a good loaf of German Rye Bread salted on the top. YUM! I guess the Italian and German background is popping out. Thanks for a chance to win.

I’m gluten free for the time being, so I’d try making a GF bread first… your 9 grain looks so lovely! My favorite bread to make when I had a Zoji breadmaker eons ago was oatmeal bread. The crust & crumb were out of this world!!!

I love love love homemade bread! I used to have a breadmaker and when the tornado came through I lost it and my Cuisenart machine. I would love to have another breadmaker. My family loves the smell of homenmade bread! Nothing makes a meal better than hot homemade bread!